Daily British Whig (1850), 25 Apr 1910, p. 6

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Healthy families always use Salvador in the home. « Brewed and matured by REINHARDTS' Sold Everywhere .. a | i. ed Glasgow University at a Very i Herald thus: "to 8. i the! oman brispe, ger | the main influence guiding him in his ll vance of most children of the same Bl' as professor of Natural Philosophy in | Gltagow Bl self held the Chair of Mathematics, 8] but in the following yedr he fell a | which then ravaged Glasgow. Of his it for the best, and has tried us with my acquiring some sto- | knowledge of natural philosophy OF TORONTO"? __ Seventy Years Age n England M.P.'s Cheated the Mails. "a If Messrs. Asomith, D+'four, Lloyd: Ceotge, Lélmond, and Co., had Tived round about the eighteen-thirties. they | BARON KELVIN OF LARGS WAS A : REMARKASLZ MAN. letters through the post for nothing 8o could the member for East St. Pan- cras, or for the Shetland and Orkney Isles; for this was a privilége extended to any and every gentleman entit to place after his name the two magi- cal letters M. and P. All they bad | William Thomsen, Who Made Himself | Famous Under Two Names, Came of a Family of Scholars and Enter Early Ago--Always Had a Prefer ence For the French Language. f Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson has just written the life of that great man of écience, so long identified with Glasgow, and yet with a world fame-- William Thomson. Baron Kelvin of Largs. One who knew Thomson well reviews the book in The Glasgow ports. These were the days when Mr. John ingham, was serving as an assistant in the postoffice at Bath. A young man of seventeen, he rode down from Birmingham to Bath in a stage coach, in true Dickensian style. on a cold = Sud De ould have Jound some 58 culty in keeping awake 'duri twelve-hour journey had it hor orn for anticipation. For he was on his way to fill a intment, which he had secured through the "William Thomson was peculiarly while William was still a child, and tender years was that of his father, Prof. James Thomson. 'A man of re. markable abilities and strong charac- ter," he devoted much care to form- ing the minds of his children, with the result that they were soon in ad- postoffice appointments went by favor in those days--and the result of this system he beheld when he arrived in Bath, and found himself among a set of "officials" who could, most of them, scarcely write, and could certainly not spell accurately. The senior clerk, for instance, was the former head-butlef of some peer for whose service he had grown too old. Subsequently, Mr. Bate graduated to the G.P.O. in London, and thence to Kidderminster, where he acted as post- master for the "princely" salary of $600 a year. And now, an old man of eighty-eight, he sits up in his little room in Earl's Court, revolving the many wonderful things he saw in what are known as "the old days." No one is a greater authority on the post- office as it was than Mr. Bate, and he has many an' interesting story of his early experiences to relate. "Members of Parliament in those days weren't half as honest as they make themselves out té6 be in this twentieth century," Mr. Bate inform- ed a representative of Answers, with a chuckle. "As you know, votes then had to be bought with mere than pro- mises, and this little postoffice sys. tem helped them considerably. The | hon. member for the Blank Division of Dashshire would think nothing of making a practice of receiving regu- larly mysterious little packages from Brown and Jones and Robinson. These contained unstamped letters, written by his constituents. Then the '"honor- able' member would calinly write his own signature on each envelope, and thus contrive to swindle one of the very departments ver which His own Government was su to keep eontrol! . "Postoffice corruption was especi ly common in those days in con tion with thé mony 'order department. Money order forms were issued to postmasters without numbers or the name of the ih being pried there. --. 8 on. e tmark stamp of the office 1 is Sthredeting 1 note In this | of issue ahd the number of the order Feat be distinetion between the |'written in, with: the postmaster's si v knowledge of Fremch, and | nature; was the only ctodentinl, w os acquaintance with German,' as | the Jetter of advice to the marks a rence for the fornfer | of the n which he often exhibited in | be made. Postmasters only made re- private life. To read was al | turns of orders issued and paid daily ways a pleasure to him, but not so to | to the G.P.O. once a quarter, and read German. gross irregularities and frauds were the result. ' "Suppose, for instance, a poor man wanted to remit a sum of money. to any pert of the country. He would write his letter previous to obtaining the ordes, ahd then proceed to the stoffice, is money, and receive he order, w ich he. hel on the spot. Then, when the letter was in- noeently ted, it was a common thing for postmaster or clerk calm- ly to take it out of the box again, ex- tract the order, and thus come out a clear gainer: of its value, while no roof was deducible that it had ever Pr sold at all! There were some ickings to which tmasters were Balls entitled, such as the dues on any letter posted in their own town to any other resident in the same town; but this, of course, was not among them." age. | "He lived to see his son installed University, where he him- i victim to. the epidemic of cholera death William wrote: 'God has willed a heavy affliction. . Mis a ter- !rible and irrepgrable loss, and a sad void is now left. "At the early age of ten William Thomson matriculated for the first time as a student of Glasgow Univer- sity--his brother James, two years his senior, making his first entry at the same time. The two brothers earned special distingtion in the departments of mathematics and natural philo- sophy, but William also gained prizes in the Latin and logic classes. he ae ng from a s made o Lord Kelvin at a dinner of the Glasgow University Club in May, 1907 --his last public speech, and one of the most delightful and most characteris tic--in which he gave his mature views " or "'A boy,' he said, 'should have learned by the age of twelve to write his own e with accuracy and some elegance, he should have a read- H knewjedts, of | French, should be e in and easy Greek authors, and should have ene. ac. juasintance with German. Having earned thus the meaning of words, a boy should study logic." He also put in a word for Greek, and added, i Raver found that the small amount of Greek I learned a hindrance to Joa Nas "For the purposes of his scientifi work he had from time fo time $0 read papers by German scientists, but he was apt to become impatient in so doing, and the present writer has seen him east the paper aside and ex- claim, 'Dear me! at 'a edinbers some la Pr "He had while .a student at Glas gow spent a vacation in France and one in Germany, but while he took free advantage of the opportunity of learning French his German trip was less # , the reason being--as his biographer now shows -- that he took with "Him to Germany his copy of Fourier's 'Mathematical Poem' on the theory of heat, and used to 'slip away to a quiet spot to revel in its pages! 8 wonderful treatise had a most powerful effect upon the mind of Thomson and profoundly influenced his whole catéer. "From his first matriculation at Cambridge he began to publish papers of Sik originality, and bere he A Quick-Change Aetist. Sixty econal. That is the tims it s Mr. H. B. Irving to transform BP povedl hin course he was 0 | himself from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde pot fu of ma in his wonderful impersonation of the of niu of he first Jank that one | ual role at the Queen's Theatre, "You ant"] ave just about = another, London. And what a transformation his s* mend | i4 is! One moment Mr. Irving is seen with such. a , in immaculate evening dress--calm, that on record, it | Gionified, and i was 'bub ignified, impressive as a learn. Prof. Pirie Seah " od doctor; ¢ and the next moment he is have been chasen to 5 Him Yo prowling round the stage--a hideous, the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Quilp-like creature, the very picture of Siasgon University--a post which he held for fifty-three years. - In that time 8 evil. How is it done?, many thousgnds of "It is said you i some wonderful , Mr. Irving," the writ through - his classes, and all came influence. er remarked during the course of ah interview. The famous actor smiled. sie i : Fe i TH i would have been able to send all their | to do was to sign their names upon. the envelopes, and they had free pass | Bate, of the Worshipful City of Birm- day, and the box-seat beside the drive instrumentality of Lord Lichfield--all: thrown, postmaster ce where payment was to am Wing Edward Made a Tremendous! Noise When He Was Born, "Is it a boy?" asked the Dike of ; lington, as the nurse came out of hg royal chamber with the new-born | baby in her arms. : "No, your grace," replied Mrs. Lilly { with immense dignity, quite crushing the Iron Dake. "It is a prince!" | As a matter of fact, though, the! nurse was Wri.g. Queen Victoria's | eldest son--our present King--was not | born a prince; he came into the world | a duke--the Duke of Cornwall. The higher rank was given him later. | riously enough, when the King! 'was born, there had been some mis. | take about letting the state dignitaries | --whose duty it is to be al the palace on such occasions--know what time to | get there. . And so the Duke 'of Wellington was | the first to welcomie the little heir to | the throne. i As he" leaving the palace he met | tearing up teo late. : has happened?' asked he breathlessly. . "All over," said the duke, "A fine | boy-- a very fine Boy! Very red in. | deed--nearly as red as you, Hill!" he added unkindly. - "If," he told another late-comer, "healthy babies cry-loudly and kick hard, then this is an uncommonly healthy baby!" "i0ur futlire King certainly seems to | have distinguished himself on enter | ing the world. He absolutely roared, and Prince Albert, his overjoyed fath- er, said: "Well, if his appetite is as good as his lungs, 1 pity his nurse." Yét no fewer than seven hundred women volunteered for the post! Of 'course, it was a& post worth having. Apart ftom the honor, it was a'lucra- tive one. The nurse of the Princess Royal got $2,500, and for such an im- portant personage as the heir to the throne the fees were doubled. The nurse and her charge were installed in a room next the Queen's, and that de. voted father and husband, Prince Al- bert, divided his time between mother and baby. ¢ Meanwhile, London and the whole kingdom went mad with joy. Never was such a Lord Mayor's Day as Nv. 9, 1841. The Lord, Mayor was almost forgotten. Great crowds gathered, cheering the Queen and the heir. Forty-eight rs «after his birth King Edward held his first official re- ception. The Lord Mayor and Sherifls of London came in state to welcome | him, { Then four weeks after his arrival he was created "Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --Prince of Wales and Earl of Ches- ter," and a host of minor titles were iven him. Until then he had been nown in the royal household as "the Little Duke." He was not only created, but erown- ed, Prince of Wales. The proclamation runs: ; "We do annoble and invest him with the. said Principality and Earldom by girting him with the sword, by put ti a coronet his head, and a ring on his finger, and also by rod into his hand." But probably his time was taken up by admiring the littering objects as they were given him. -------- George 1V. and the King's Speech. One of the best stories in connection with the history of the King's speech, delivered at the opening of each fresh session of Parliament, is told of George IV. when Prince Regent and recalled by a contributor to The 8 Magazine. e prince, it is well known, took his responsibilities lightly, and on one occasion is said to have bet Sheridan a hundred that either owing to the m of his personality or the flutter which the oecupants of the Lords' chamber were in so little attention was really paid to the ver bal character of the speech he was delivering that he could make any in- tarpolation he liked without it being detec The bet was taken and the Prince Regent to introduce the words "Baa, baa, black sheep" in the middle of the speech. "1 anybody smilés or looks start. led" he said, "T lose my bet." 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